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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Frequency of contact"”.
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Frequency of contact with non-cohabitating adult children and risk of depression in elderly: A community-based three-year longitudinal study in Korea
… aimed to assess the longitudinal association of frequency of contact with non-cohabitating adult children and risk of depression in the elderly. Method: Elderly aged ≥60 years were included from Living Profiles of Older People Survey(LPOPS) in Korea. The baseline assessment, Wave 1, was …
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Coping, adjustment, and self-concept among siblings of the chronically mentally ill
<p>Seventy-four adult siblings of individuals with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder were interviewed by telephone regarding the effects that having a sibling with a chronic mental illness has had on them. Specifically, this study examined the effects that problem-focused coping, emotion-focused …
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The experience of Australian relinquishing mothers in open adoption: contact, psychological adjustment and grief
… experiences in open adoption in the state of Victoria, Australia. The quantitative study aimed to document the actual practice of contact, and to examine the associations between contact and psychological adjustment and grief of relinquishing mothers. The study consisted of 30 participants …
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The effects of the relationship between racial identity and the nature and frequency of interracial contact on racial prejudice and social distance
In the light of social identity theory and contact theory, this study looked at the effects of racial identity on contact and prejudice. The sample consisted of 826 UCT students who belonged to the White and African population groups. Their mean age was 20.50 and they were 52.54% females and 47.46% …
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Sibling interaction in adulthood
… explained variance in three dependent measures: frequency of contact with an adult sibling, obligation to have contact with the sibling, and desire for contact with the sibling. The predictor variables represented four conceptual areas of influence on sibling interaction: qualities of the sibling …
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Improving physical activity adherence: the effects of self-control strategies, telephone prompting using lifestyle physical activity
… and disease prevention concern. Yet, much of the population remains sedentary and thus, at increased risk for several diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and hyperlipidemia. Unfortunately, programs promoting physical activity have had limited success in increasing activity …
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A study of attitudes of high school learners towards school desegregation
The study consisted of three aims. The first was to determine the general attitude of high school learners towards school desegregation, the second aim focused on the age of the learner and whether or not this played a role in the learners' attitudes towards the process of desegregation and lastly …
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Taiwan Employers' Concerns About Hiring People With Disabilities
… very concerned about the skills and attitudes of people with disabilities, the legislative mandates in the LPD, and the support and training provided by rehabilitation agencies and were concerned but less so about economic factors regarding hiring people with disabilities; (2) employers were …
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Godparents Among Mexican-American and Anglo-American Catholics
… In order to answer these questions a sample of families selected by the priests of three parishes differing with respect to ethnic composition was interviewed. This sample was composed of families which had had a child baptized in the six-month period, November, 1972, to May, 1973. The data …
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The Real Virtual World: Connectivity and Techno-mediation in the Lives of College Students
… questions: how do developments and structures of technological communication allow for the emergence of new social expectations and behaviors in the realm of connectivity and social interaction? How do individuals experience social pressures for connectivity and how do such pressures shape …
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African-American males with mental retardation: Friendship formation and maintenance in community-based employment
… in community-based integrated work settings of nine African-American males with mild-to-moderate mental retardation. How these relationships appear to have been formed and how they are maintained are the main topics under discussion. The literature review addresses friendship formation and …
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Students' perceptions of academic advisement in rural Virginia community colleges
Professional literature suggests that there is widespread dissatisfaction with academic advisement, even though students continually indicate that the advising process is critical to their success in post-secondary education. This study investigated the perceptions of traditional and adult …
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A Study of Heat Transfer Through Periodically Contacting Surfaces
… describes a theoretical and experimental study of heat transfer through the interface between two solids which make contact and then separate periodically. The cycle of contact and separation is continuous and the quasi-steady state only is considered. The system chosen as the model for study …
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Influence of Individual Perceptions on Engineering Team Performance within Design Build Infrastructure Projects
The successful delivery of large complex infrastructure projects continues to challenge the civil engineering profession, with a predominance of projects delivered late and over budget. Many researchers have investigated methods and means of improving the less-than-satisfactory record of the …
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Social support during adjustment to later-life divorce: how adult children help parents
… the adult child's role as a provider of social support to divorced parents. Each of the 230 randomly-selected individuals participating in the survey had been divorced after 19 or more years of marriage and had at least one child over age 18. Participants ranged in age from 36 to 72 …
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Factors Related to Delayed Time for HIV Care Among Youth Living with HIV: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Social Support Networks and Access to Care
… This research explored the pattern of influence social support networks had on delayed time between diagnosis and first doctor’s visit after diagnosis of HIV in youth. Results showed that factors related to receiving a referral were prosocial peer behaviors and excessive fibbing in …
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The influence of play style on the friendship choices of preschool children
… to be an important variable in the friendships of preschool children. Recent research on play styles has provided some evidence that children demonstrate stable individual differences in their play behavior. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between individual …
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Contact Allergy to Textile Dyes - Clinical and Chemical Studies on Disperse Dyes
… dyes are common sensitizers among textile dyes. Contact allergy to disperse dyes has been documented in studies carried out in southern Europe, however, corresponding studies have not been performed in the Scandinavian countries. The aim of this study was thus to evaluate the prevalence of …
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Predicting and explaining uptake of cervical screening : the role of social cognitions
The aim of the prospective studies in this thesis was to identify factors relating to intentions to have a smear test as part of the national screening programme in the UK and actual uptake of this test. A second aim was to assess the sufficiency and efficacy of social cognition models in …
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Sources of information for New Zealand knowledge workers : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business Studies at Massey University
… to use both interpersonal and print sources of information. This study examined the sources employed by 318 knowledge workers in 17 organisations, comprising a mixture of private sector, public sector and quasi-governmental enterprises. Environmental and organisational, individual and source …
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